No tools required.
Wrap the downhaul around you harness hook, while you're wearing it, and sitting down, put one foot on the bottom of the base extension, push with that foot, and lean back, serious leverage that way.

It's also a great method for when you need to adjust the downhaul at the water's edge, but your "tool" is back in your vehicle.

For everyone responding with how tos, I actually have two metal tugs in my gear bag and have no problem with them. As a newer windsurfer, I had never seen a plastic one before and didn't know its consequences. This was more of a PSA to learn from my misfortune aimed at the newer guys who might buy some older rigs with one and hurt themselves.

Back in the early 90s I stopped trying to downhaul sails using a handheld Clamcleat tool, because I started having problems with my back that manifested itself in my right hip. Painfully, I found that manually downhauling sails puts an incredible stress on one's body. At that time, I bought a Rig-It-Right lever tool, and with its use my physical problems quickly vanished.

In more recent years, I added a Chinook winch which is configured to work with the Euro-pin mast extensions. This tool is even simpler to operate, and it gives you a huge mechanical advantage. Use of these simple downhaul tools makes achieving the correct downhaul effortless, and in addition, you no longer have sit down and get your butt wet or dirty to accomplish the task.

I still use a metal handheld Clamcleat for getting the right outhaul tension, and it's quite handy for uncleating and releasing the downhaul line while derigging.

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